Job 19

¹Then Job answered, and said:

²How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

³Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.

⁴For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.

⁵But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

⁶At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

⁷Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

⁸He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.

⁹He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.

¹¹His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.

¹²His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.

¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

¹⁴My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.

¹⁵They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.